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In a major milestone for the addiction field, the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) recently named the first group of board-certified addiction-medicine specialists, recognizing 1,240 doctors who previously had been certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) [Join Together, USA]
A national Join Together policy panel created a Blueprint that state governments need to follow to develop effective alcohol and drug policies that will save lives, restore families and reduce crime [Join Together, USA]
The government’s proposal to re-introduce the alcopops bills has raised some questions about how ‘identical’ the bills must be to serve as a double dissolution trigger [Parliament of Australia]
The consultation – Safe. Sensible. Social. Selling alcohol responsibly – asks for your input on our proposals to reduce alcohol-related crime and lower the costs of alcohol-related health problem [Home Office, UK]
For the first time, preliminary research using brain-imaging technology has shown that low-key and attention-grabbing anti-smoking public service announcements stimulate different patterns of activity in smokers’ brains and that smokers are more likely to remember seeing the low-key PSAs [NIDA, USA]
Contrary to the industry’s position that visible drink labels will promote responsible drinking, young people are, instead, using these visible standard drink labels to increase or even maximize the amount of alcohol they consume at the lowest cost possible [Medical News Today, UK]
In response to recent concerns raised in the media about administering abused drugs to human subjects who are addicted (VA Researchers Gave Morphine to Addicts in Study, 5/5/09), I invite you to consider the following [Nora Volkow, Director, NIDA, USA]
People in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs face widespread stigma and discrimination, according to a groundbreaking, national survey released today [Join Together, USA]
Scientists see vast clinical potential of newly identified gene targets [NIDA, USA]
Covers the latest Australian news and research on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs {long download} [Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Australia]
This study examined the real-world effectiveness of a 24/7 free-access, anonymous, interactive, and Web-based self-help intervention called Drinking Less (DL) at http://www.minderdrinken.nl [Medical News Today, UK]
The AERC Alcohol Academy will be officially launching next month with a conference and workshop event in London. The Academy will operate as a social enterprise set up to facilitate networking and skills development for alcohol coordinators, leads and commissioners [Alcohol Policy UK Blog]
UKESAD is to be televised for the first time in 2009 in an exclusive broadcasting deal with Inexcess, the broadband TV show for addiction and recovery [UKESAD, UK]
This is an important – and challenging – programme of work, and within the Drug Systems Change Pilot, these partnerships will be given freedoms and flexibilities to explore innovative approaches that, if successful, will help to determine the future direction of regional and local drug funding, commissioning and delivery systems [NTA, UK]
Papers and reports [Substance Misuse Management in General Practice, UK]
Scientists, universities and community organisations should refuse to take funding from Drinkwise, an organisation established and controlled by the alcohol industry, according to Deakin University’s Dr. Peter Miller and Dr. Kypros Kypri from the University of Newcastle in a commentary published in the May issue of the international scientific journal, Drug and Alcohol Review [Medical News Today, UK]
NIDA Notes covers drug abuse research in the areas of treatment and prevention, epidemiology, neuroscience, behavioral science, health services, and AIDS [National Institute of Drug Abuse, USA]
NICE was asked by the Department of Health (DH) to develop public health intervention guidance on School-based interventions to prevent the uptake of smoking amongst children. All registered stakeholders are now invited to comment on the evidence that has been assembled to inform the development of this guidance [NICE, UK]
Lengthening waiting times for methadone treatment are acting as a disincentive for heroin addicts to seek treatment, the chief executive of the largest voluntary drug treatment project, Merchants Quay Ireland, has warned [drugs.ie]
Merseyside police were honoured by the Home Office at the Tackling Drugs Supply Awards [Home Office, UK]
